Kai Schaetzl wrote:
wrote on 16 Aug 2007 17:26:42 -0000:
One thing I noticed when experimenting with pre-filters: bayes no longer knows
about
certain kinds of spam. If, for some reason, the prefilter does not catch (i.e.
you are
one of the first to get a new spam run) then SA might pass it with neutral
bayes.
So it might be an idea to feed (a certain percentage of) pre-filtered spam to a
low
priority SA learn job
Indeed. On my personal server 99,9% of the spam that reaches SA is from a forwarded
email address, so I cannot block it on MTA. If it weren't for those my Bayes would
grow obsolete quickly.
Kai
If you can block SPAM at the MTA level, then that would surely be the
best solution for all of your resources. The problem is that sometimes,
like for me, I have mail that gets forwarded from another account. That
account sends my server about 96% spam. There's nothing that I can do
to stop that at the MTA level. For everyone else, I would *much* rather
spamd never crank up.
...even though it does do a wonderful job, and since I started using it
about 2 years ago, it has dropped my spam count from about 5,000 a day
to only about 10 or 15. If only we could use spam for fuel.
-=Aubrey=-
